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0 pointsshaicoleman4y ago0 comments

I've enabled the Timeline feature in Google Maps, which records everywhere I go. The benefit I get out of that feature outweighs the privacy concerns for me.

Since I use Google as my main search engine, Google already knows what I've clicked on, so in that case AMP is just an annoyance, not a privacy concern.

Google spent enormous efforts to make the internet fast (Chrome, V8, QUIC, SPDY & HTTP/2, BBR, TLS 1.3, etc.) I will give them the benefit of the doubt that they developed AMP for performance reasons and not for tracking reasons.

I'm personally less concerned about the recording of the data, than the security of the data. Leaks due to security incomptence (e.g. the Facebook leak) seem like a much bigger imminent threat to me.

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CarelessExpert4y ago

> I'm personally less concerned about the recording of the data, than the security of the data. Leaks due to security incomptence (e.g. the Facebook leak) seem like a much bigger imminent threat to me.

This reminds me of an old joke: it's not the fall that kills you; it's the sudden stop at the end.

You wouldn't have to worry about leaks if they didn't collect the data in the first place.

MikeUt4y ago

So Google never betrayed your trust because they simply haven't needed to - you gave them everything willingly.

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